Family Resources

We know that stronger, more resilient families create stronger, more resilient youth. And the need for family support is even more significant with continuing uncertainties in the economy and extended deployments for Alaska’s military. More and more of Alaska’s families need out-of-school care and support, and Camp Fire is here to help provide that.

Those factors are: parental resilience; social connections; knowledge of parenting and child development; concrete support in times of need; and healthy social and emotional competence of children. Healthy and supported parents raise healthy and supported children, and families thrive when these protective factors are robust in their lives and communities.

Each site established a leadership team made up of the site director, a program manager or lead site director from the Camp Fire office and a parent whose child is in the program. Those groups met weekly with a coach, provided by the thread network, to help them develop an implementation plan. Each site focused on three specific ways to help strengthen the families with which they work. Camp Fire is excited about the potential for using the Strengthening Families model throughout our school-age program over the next few years.

Supporting your special-needs child…

The Program for Infants and Children has put together a series of short videos designed to help educate families about their rights as parents when they contract services from Alaska's Early Intervention/Infant Learning Programs. This is a specialized service designed to aid and engage infants and toddlers with developmental delays and/or disabilities. If you know someone who would benefit from this information, please don't hesitate to share this
link!